Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 31: Natrang’s Five Day Theatre Festival concluded today with the ‘Beemar’, a comedy play in Urdu written by Saadat Hasan Manto and adapted and directed by Sumeet Sharma, in Natrang’s Sunday Theatre Series.
In the play ‘Beemar’, ‘Kumar’ is not feeling well even after taking the medicines prescribed by the doctor. As he wants to get well as early as possible, he becomes an opportune laboratrory testing animal for everyone around him. All his acquaintances practice their skills of prescribing the best remedy on him. Inspite of having cough, he is suggested to eat sour things like tamarind etc. reason being, ‘diamond cuts diamond’. He is made to consume rotten vegetables and a lot of weird items. Even after doing variegated treatment, his condition deteriorates which frustrates him and he resolves to go for one single logical treatment. This play suggests in a very humorous manner that we should not be so unstable that we are carried away by anybody’s suggestions (relevant or irrelevant). The incidents in the play make us laugh on our own follies and thus creating a will for discreet thinking.
Uplaksh Singh Kotwal as ‘Kumar’ acted his role very well, he was equally supported by Ashwani Bali as ‘Rashid’, Sumeet Sharma as ‘Bedi’, Mohd. Yaseen as ‘Madhoo’, Shekhar Sharma as ‘Naresh’, and Sajra Qadir as ‘Mini’. Lights were designed and operated by Suraj Ganjoo and Sound was looked after by Ankush Lakhnotra. The presentations were done by Aarti Rajput.
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